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>>>>> "reti" == reti  <reti@wilson.ai.mit.edu> writes:

    reti>     Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:16 EDT
    reti>     From: Mike McDonald <mikemac@mikemac.com>


    >> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 19:40:50 +0200
    >> To: slug@ai.sri.com
    >> From: Rainer Joswig <joswig@lavielle.com>
    >> Subject: Re: SYMBOLICS LISP MACHINE

    >> Now Harlequin seems to be in trouble...
    >> 
    >> Survival of the Lispm is more important than ever.

    reti>       Unfortunately, I don't think Lispms can survive as long as they
    reti>     depend entirely on one person. I'm not trying to pick on Reti
    reti>     personally. It just that Genera is too big of a system for just one
    reti>     person to give the kind of support and nurturing that it deserves.

    reti> I completely agree that as a one-person company Symbolics isn't viable.
    reti> We are trying (and have been for some time) to get the resources to
    reti> put Symbolics back as a real company (with more employees).  When there
    reti> is something definite to announce, you can be sure it will be announced
    reti> here.

    reti>       Mike McDonald
    reti>       mikemac@mikemac.com

That would be odd, as almost nothing is announced here.
I got an email back in March from David Schmidt saying that the
company had been bought from bankruptcy by unknown parties; this
message had a definite "it's all over, see ya later, thanks for the
memories" tone to it.  Now it appears the company is alive.  Did I
miss something?  It's really just curiousity, but does anyone in a
position to know want to make a statement as to what the company
status is *now*?  (I've inferred a lot from the recent traffic, e.g.,
there's one technical employee, but that's not an announcement.)

-- 
Liam Healy
Liam.Healy@nrl.navy.mil